Improvement in buggy-seats



EDWARI) T. MITHOFF AN D JESSE W. DANN, 0F GGLUMBUS, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 111,232, dtei January 24, 1871.

IMPROls'ElVli-INT llil BUGGP'VSEATS.

Tne Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the smo.

To all whom 4il) may concern:

Beit known thnt we, EDWARD T. ilIurnoFF :ind

Jnssn W. DANN, of Columbus, in the county of Franklin :ind State of Ohio, have invented n, new and improved Buggy-Sent; and we do hereby declare that the following is n. full, clefnr, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the :iccoinpnnying drnwing milking pnrt of this specification, ln which- Figure 1 is o. perspoolive-vieiv ofthe improved sont.

Figure 2 is n. front elevation of the sont.

Figure 3 is n. section through the sont., laken vertically and transversely.

Similar letters of reference indicato corresponding pzirtsin the several figures.

A is the sent-bottoni.

B, the back,l made of the `usual forni and by the ordinary mode of making sheet-metal books. XVe, preferably, nin-ke it of' zino metal, und with Hongos, b g, along its edges.

a is :i wooden strip,.prodiieed from n hoard, which, :liter being steamed and bent als near. :is possible to the proper form for the backs, is szlwed up into nnrrow strips, which are again bent to the exact form re quired while they nre being fastened to the flange g of the sheet-metnl backs. The wooden strip, thus made and applied, answers for stiifening the backs,

:ind allows of the hacks being upholstered, it serving as n. took-hold.v

c c are curved wooden braeing-hnndles, formed on the extremities-0f a. .narrow strip of wood, C, which is secured to the front edge of the sent-bottoni A. These handles are produced by sten-ming sind bending the wood after properly shaping the some. The es:- tremities or ends ofthe curved handles nre riveted to the ends of the strip a, or to both the strip (L und flange y, es inn-y he necessary.

The imjnovements we have mode enable us te make n. sen-t which is very strong yet light, and there is no liability of the seat eoi'1oding,zn1d, when desirable, the sent can be upholstered.

lVhzit we elniin as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is

I. The wooden rim a, att-ached to the metal bock B, snhstnntinlly as and for the 'purpose described.

2. The combination ot' the curved wooden bracinglinndles c c, rim o, meml back B, and sent-bottom A, substantially :is and for the purpose described.

EDWARD T. MITHOFF. JESSE W. DANN. Witnesses:

G. G'. GoLLiNs, GEO. J. ArKINsoN. 

